Should You Join Finances With Your Partner?

It seems like for all of time, the standard was to combine finances with your partner. But is that really necessary anymore? Actually... absolutely not. Learn how you and your partner can be completely financially unified regardless of who banks where, if you share every dollar, or split every expense right down the middle. Decide which of these three (actually, four!) approaches fit you and your partner best, and budget with perfect union!

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:18 Do We Need to Combine Finances?!
1:16 How YNAB Together Can Help
1:59 Method #1: All Accounts are Shared Accounts
4:30 Method #2: All Accounts are Separate Accounts
7:26 Method #3: Separate Accounts + Joint Account
9:21 Method #3B: Separate Accounts + Shared Budget
11:32 Questions to Ask As a Couple
12:46 Outro
13:38 Bloopers
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